The CEO's Assistant
Chapter 29

A year ago....

"Cherry!!!!!"

"I am home sweetheart. Where are you?"

I was home now, back from my business trip and was excited to meet my girlfriend/fiancée. God I missed her so much. I wanted to surprise her so I came back without informing her.

But little did I know that I'll get a surprise from her or rather say give me heartbreak instead.

I couldn't believe what I saw in front of me as I entered into my bedroom.

"What the hell are you doing here? And you Cherry! "I was beyond furious. She was with Antonio, one of my business partners. Damn they were tangled together naked in my apartment. Damn she is my fiancée and she is sleeping with someone else in my absence.

"Alexi...God. How come your home? God...no... I mean...Just a second. Let me just explain. Please." She stood there wrapping the thin sheet around her body, looking all alarmed and worried.

I lost my patience and seeing my girl with someone else made my blood boil. Antonio, he stood there wrapping another sheet around his torso and stood there without any shame. The nerve of that guy!

I immediately stepped forward and landed a heavy punch on his left cheek. He fell on my bed and groaned in pain. Cherry shrieked out watching my action.

"Get out of my apartment. I will talk to you tomorrow. Leave now." I yelled at him. He picked himself up from my bed and while dressing himself up he left without a word.

I turned towards Cherry, she was scared.

"Why? Why did you do this to me?

I loved you Cherry and trusted you with my life. You were supposed to be waiting for me here and what I see is... it's unforgivable. You cheated me. Cherry why did you do this?" I asked her in anger.

She winced with my high pitched tone. She was sitting on the edge of the bed and tears were flowing down from her cheeks.

"I.....I just...I am sorry." She said in a whisper.

"You are sorry!" I paced right and left in the room in anger.

"You were never here with me. You always left me and was busy in your work. You have no time for me. When was the last time we spend time together. I don't even remember.

Antonio gives me his time; he loves me and makes me happy. What else would you expect me to do?

You cannot expect me to wait for you my whole life just to spend time with you. You just love your work not me." She looked at me and said with irritation.

"You are my fiancée dammit. You could have talked to me about your feelings.

I do care about you and though I am busy in my work I always made sure to check up on you. We always talked over skype. You can't blame me for this. Seriously!! I think this is a mistake that I have made.

O god. I am done. You are free from me. It's done...Our relationship.... We are done. You can leave now. "I said in a stern voice and gestured towards the door.

"Alexander. Please. I..." she was about to say something but I couldn't bear the fact that she slept with Antonio. So I left the apartment.

I headed straight to one of the bar and got drunk till I was totally tipsy. I was stressed with all that happened before and so I called up my best friend Ray to talk about it.

As Ray understood my state of misery he came to the bar and picked me up and dropped me home.

Next day, morning I couldn't get up from bed due to the hangover and don't remember how I ended up in my own bed. My head was exploding with pain. Took some medicine and slept off again.

I woke up in the afternoon, went into kitchen. There was a sticky note on the fridge by Ray and I understood yesterday he dropped me home. Then I helped myself with food prepared by him and a glass of juice.

I was pondering upon my thoughts while looking out from my balcony. I was all heartbroken and all angry upon my life. What went wrong?

I remembered our first meeting; it was during a charity event. I was introduced to Cherry by the event organizer. She was wearing a silver sequence gown which had a slit in front. She looked absolutely gorgeous and was walking the ramp for that event. We instantly hit it off well.

Then in a month we got to know each other and started dating. I liked how confident she was and carried off herself very well. She is a social butterfly, loves camera and her modelling career is just shaping up currently and works hard to get at the top place. I helped her to get at the top of it and in six months she became a supermodel and together we became a power couple.

True I was busy most of the time with my work but I did take time off to spend with her. I thought everything is awesome and felt I found a perfect match for myself. Yes I love her and that's the reason why I proposed her. Damn, why she said all those things. She made it seem like it's my entire fault that she slept with him.

Come on. How could she do that?

I was completely loyal to her. Yet she broke my trust and my heart. She cheated me.

I was then completely focusing on my work. I broke off the partnership with Antonio and my business and personal life was being discussed in the media as a hot topic which was quite annoying.

After a week, Cherry requested to meet and talk. I decided to go and meet her as I still had feelings for her.

She begged me for forgiveness and was crying like hell. She accepted her fault, apologized and asked for a chance. Well, I thought about it a lot and gave her a chance.

For three weeks everything was almost back to normal. A year we were together everything was good between us, once again after one year and three months I proposed her and we got engaged.

But yet again, there were a lot of speculations about her having an affair with Antonio. The media made a big fuss on my relationship with her and Cherry and Antonio's. It was such a hard time for me that I then started to investigate the matter without her knowing.

Yet again, I was betrayed by her. She was seeing him and spending time with him behind my back.

She was with me only to get the fame and to build a strong modelling career which she successfully got and is now actually gaining a lot of attention.

I confronted her and all she said is that she is out of love with me. Mostly she blamed me for that. And I don't know what made me think to give her a damn second chance when all she did is make a joke out of me in front of the whole world. All I showed was my true feelings for her but she just never saw it and was way too selfish and a bitch to do so wrong with me.

I am lying on my bed thinking about my past. The experience of my past relationship only made me furious and since then I changed. I never showed much of my emotions.

I built up walls and never allowed any girl to break and enter into my heart. I hated that feeling of a relationship. I was sick of the entire love thing. The word love meant nothing to me since then. Yes I started having meaningless sex and nothing more than that.

I only dedicated myself with work and built up a business empire. The Pearce Industries, which I am proud off and today I am in this position and have power.

Nobody can mess with me.

But now, one girl did capture my attention due to her innocence and awesome attitude.

My hell of a sexy personal assistant...Scarlet Reeves....

She is smart, absolutely beautiful, and feisty at times and must say efficient at whatever work she does. I can't replace her with anyone else.

I took notice of her since first day. Though Taylor mentioned about her and insisted to give her a job. I never thought she might be this awesome.

I don't know what she did but whatever it is, she is slowly making my life colorful. She is changing me making me feel things which I never felt before. Not even with Cherry I felt this strong connection.

And so I want to explore this feeling with her. I feel warmth inside myself and I am happy to be with her and I always want her to be in my sight. I want to make her happy, see her sweet smile. This is crazy.

I hope this business trip helps me to know more about her and her feelings too.

I am so looking forward to this trip.

Sighing I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.